Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

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.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

To God's own heart be true.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.