The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

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.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

When you begin to run after miracles you reduce yourself.

He was like a jalapeño, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.