Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

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 did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.

Not all dangers are obvious.

'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.