Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought.
~ Winston Churchill (about Prime Minister James MacDonald)

The further backward you can look, the further forward you are likely to see.
~ Winston Churchill

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
~ Winston Churchill

The longest way round is the shortest way home.
~ C.S. Lewis

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That is why we call it “the Present”.

He is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
~ Winston Churchill (about Prime Minister Clement Atlee)

Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.
~ John F. Kennedy

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
~ John F. Kennedy

My enemy’s enemy is my friend.

Not he who has little, but he who desires much is poor.
~ Seneca

Short people’s constant worry: the average.

Volunteer your services with caution. The best assurance that they are wanted and needed is to be invited.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

It is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that count.
~ Adlai Stevenson

If you’re not the lead dog the view never changes.

It is better to know someone despite his faults than not to know someone at all.
~ Roberto Goizueta

Some people refuse to do what is right for fear of the inconvenient consequences.

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.