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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.