“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty.