Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

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

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.