A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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

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.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

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.

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

A leader leads by example not by force.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Change before you have to.