A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

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.

I stifled a yawn. "It's too early to be such an asshat Daniel.

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.