“When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks. When you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks. When you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.”

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

“It’s no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”

“Never, never, never give in!”

“People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

“An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, “If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.” Churchill’s response, “Ma’am if you were my wife I would drink it.”

“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”

“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”