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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

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.

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

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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

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.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed.

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

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilisation ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.