I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

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.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Be noble like the sun

True compassion comes by living in the shoes of another, providing a perspective closer to that of God.

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.

The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.