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.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

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

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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

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.

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.

A leader leads by example not by force.

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

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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