Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

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.

Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Change happens at the level of the individual

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.