Winston Churchill

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

With all the doubt, with every worry, with all the negativity that I mistook for honesty, it kept me blinded. Lying for so long, I fooled myself in believing it to be my reality. And living in that world, it was my reality. Like when the lights come on, or when the curtains are drawn back, the shock of the clarity, meant I had to adjust to the new world I was witnessing. An honest; good with the bad, world, that I can thrive and grow in.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil.