In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

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.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.