Winston Churchill

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.

When the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.