Winston Churchill

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

We must train hard. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

That after an hour’s silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness… That’s all, it took him an hour to work that out.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Travel is a fools paradise.