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.

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

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.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Change before you have to.

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.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.