My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Advice

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Arts and Artists

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Capitalism

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Children

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Conscience

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Courage

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Critics and Criticism

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Decisions

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Expression

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Genius

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Heroes and Heroism

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Humankind

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Justice

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Learning

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Mind

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Nations

The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."

Opportunity

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Perseverance

Never, never, never, never give up.

Planning

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Quotations

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

Simplicity

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Speakers and Speaking

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Time and Time Management

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Victory

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Words

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Writers and Writing

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.