The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

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.

The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

I'm a horror movie fanatic.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!