Winston Churchill

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

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

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

They say that history repeats itself, so if you don’t learn from the past you will make the same mistakes. So I have become an archaeologist of my own history. Digging up what has long since been buried, exhuming those forgotten fragments. Trying to distinguish what is real from folklore, trying to gain understanding, rather than relying on myths.