The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

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.

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

All things are beautiful in the sacred time.

For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

I hope people can see us SHINee, who are doing what we can do now, as we are.