Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

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.

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

Life is full of challenges, seen and unseen, so to look and feel great, you must hold your head up each day and project your inner confidence.

Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.