I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct 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.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

If your thoughts can change your actions, then your actions can change your thoughts.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.