But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

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 did you first fall in love?""I think, I first fell in lovewhen I was in fifth gradewith this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on my desk with it.

Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.

There’s no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense

I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.

Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.