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.

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.

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

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

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

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

A leader leads by example not by force.

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

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

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

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

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

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