Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.