The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

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.

By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.

Spring season is a sacred season of great strength.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

What millions died that Caesar might be great!