It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

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.

Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom.

It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity

Fear is the prison of the heart.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

I've been with 'Days of Our Lives' for 21 years, and I've decided this year is going to be my last year.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.