It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost 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.

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. - Aurora

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

People that have died 10 years ago are still voting, illegal immigrants are voting.

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

I am a mom as well as a senator!