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.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

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

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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.

Superman don't need no seat belt. Comment to a flight attendant, who replied: "Superman don't need no airplane, either."

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Remark to Ernst Straus, one of his assistants.

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.