"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles"
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite"
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act"
"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win"
"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life"
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die"
"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf"
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere"
"The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it"
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried"
"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc"
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position"
