Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

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.

All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path

Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny).

I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!

Every person that you meet knows at least one thing that you don't. Don't let them leave without learning it.

If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.