It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

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.

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?

With heightened senses it remained motionless and looked through bulbous eyes. It could taste fear in the air. Pheromones. Sweat. Food was near, but more importantly, so was its new home.

My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.

I am a great believer in research and innovation.