It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

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.

Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.

Becoming unshakeable through this storm.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

I don’t want traffic behavior, I want social behavior.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.