Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

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 she tells you her problems she is not moaning, she trusts you.

Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.