If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

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.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I think I'm really obsessed with characters that lose their face, in a way. I think it's very moving.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.