“None holds more lessons, especially for youth: How to use a difficult childhood. How to seize eagerly on all opportunities, physical, moral, and intellectual. How to dare greatly, to reinforce success, and to put the inevitable failures behind you. And how, while pursuing vaulting ambition with ener…”— Boris Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Life
“Nature is merciful and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass. It is only when the cruelty of man intervenes that hellish torments appear. For the rest, live dangerously, take things as they come. Fear naught, all will be well.”— Boris Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Life
“When Winston was born lots of fairies swooped down on his cradle with gifts–imagination, eloquence, industry, ability–and then came a fairy who said 'No one person has a right to so many gifts,' picked him up and gave him such a shake and twist that with all these gifts he was denied judgment and wi…”— Stanley Baldwin, Boris Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Life
“Churchill's greatest intellectual gift was for picking on essentials and concentrating on them.”— Jock Colville, Boris Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Life