Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

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 earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter

All play and no work makes me a happy girl

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.