On being asked by a small boy how he became a war hero:

I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have that would be it: vitality.


Quoted in A Thousand Days (1965)


I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have that would be it: vitality.

I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have that would be it: vitality.

I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have that would be it: vitality.

I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have that would be it: vitality.