There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

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.

You can cower, ” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn’t shoot a hundred birds. “It’s amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D!

What is needed is never to be had without price.

Jesus has paid for my healing. Disease has no right to be in my body. I am healed in Jesus’ name!

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared