Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.