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.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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

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.

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.

I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

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

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain

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.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

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

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.