Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

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

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.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.