She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

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.

Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.

VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

Give me love and work - these two only.