People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

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.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, "They get it, man. They totally get it."

We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.