Winston S. Churchill

"Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is 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."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

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

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."

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

"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."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

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

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

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

"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."

"A joke is a very serious thing."

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

"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."