Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

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.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

How many are the things I can do without!

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

In a man’s letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.