Winston S. Churchill

"Writing a book 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."

"It's no use saying, "We are doing our best."You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"Never, never, never give in!"

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

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

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."

"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."

"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."

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

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."

"It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something."