Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to prepare for the long haul, the rise and fall, and let neither define your sense of self.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…