"A little mouse of thought appears in..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

“Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.”

“To live is to think.”

“Man usually believes, if only words he hears,That also with them goes material for thinking.[Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]”

“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”

“Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.”

“If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.”