Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.

This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.

The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I still believe that all you need is love.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.