Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

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 look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.