Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

Stupidity is something you can only partly save people from.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing –to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.