Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.