If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!