Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

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.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.