I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.