Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

If people trust and love you, you will never walk alone.

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.