A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

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.

When the inner beauty exceeds the outward beauty--it creates a magical dance in the heart.

He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: “If I get that girl’s number I will never ask another girl for her number again.

It is customary for those who wish to have the most beautiful ones to endeavourer to offer them gifts of those things which they hold most precious in order to win their hearts.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.