In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

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.

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

Nothing is free even in Freetown. You must pay a price to get a prize.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door.

Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.

All you have to do is believe, baby, believe you're the best in the world and you'll get here.

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.