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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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.

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

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.