A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

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.

The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

Our Industry has been bitten by the 100 crore club

Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.