Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

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.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.