A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Letter to Harry S. Truman.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Change before you have to.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed.

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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.