I have been blessed with so much good fortune throughout my long life, and I am treated with so much kindness by my fellow countrymen far outside the ranks of party, and indeed also in the United States and in Europe, that all the daydreams of my youth have been surpassed.

Winston Churchill · Plymouth, 23 October 1951

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Stanley Kubrick · The source reads: “The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought it can be filmed.” · Cited in The Making of Kubrick's 2001, ed. Jerome Agel (1970)

It is our future that lays down the law of our today.

Friedrich Nietzsche · The source reads: “Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.” · Human, All Too Human (1878), sec. 7

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.

Albert Einstein · To F. S. Wada, an Idaho farmer who asked for words his son could live by, 30 July 1947.

“I have been blessed with so much good fortune throughout my long life, and I am treated with so much kindness by my fellow countrymen far outside the ranks of party, and indeed also in the United States and in Europe, that all the daydreams of my youth have been surpassed.”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?”

“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.”

“It is our future that lays down the law of our today.”

“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.”

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