Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

Your biggest obstacle, is the man in the mirror

I haven't seen much but the one thing life has taught me so far is at least one out of every ten friend will not be jealous of your success.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

I wouldnt mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.