Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

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.

Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.

The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

I really love peace and quiet.

I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.