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.

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

A leader leads by example not by force.

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

If you are going through hell, keep going.

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.

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

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

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

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

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

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

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Change before you have to.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.