Somebody once asked Winston Churchill what most prepared him to risk political suicide by speaking out against Hitler du…

— Winston Churchill

Some years ago, a young man ran for the legislature in a large state and was badly swamped. He next entered business, fa…

— Abraham Lincoln

Before Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio that finally worked, he tried two hundred unsuccessful ones. Somebody as…

— Jonas Salk

When, after devastating bombardments, the Nazis moved into Narvik, Norway, the mayor said to a group of newspapermen: “T…

— NATURE

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

— Winston Churchill

Thought Attacks! Nineteen-year-old Liu Shi-Kun was an esteemed concert pianist in China until the Cultural Revolution ba…

— Liu Shikun