He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

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.

In any situation, there is hope. Don’t give! Be strong!

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.

I can call spirits from the vasty deep."Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?

People forget years and remember moments.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

The monsters are in your own head

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.