I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.