The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

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.

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.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.

If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long.

Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.