No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

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.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

There is no problem you can't take absolute advantage of.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.