If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
Winston ChurchillTo be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
Winston ChurchillHistory unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
Winston ChurchillHe sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.
Winston Churchill