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.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

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.

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

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.

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.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'

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

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."

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

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.