Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

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 never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.

Good shot.”“Not really. I was aiming for his balls.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

I love keeping a connection with everyone I've worked with.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

As a professor, millennials intrigued me. I see them as engagement ready - plug-n-play if you will. They want to contribute in the classroom, the workplace and to society.

I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’