Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

I'm going to do more movies and travel.

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.