Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it.

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 the decision, not ego.

In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.

I have read numerous books by Scarlett Avery and I have not been disappointed. —kristina pelka

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.