A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

What we think and love persistently will be what we become.

There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.