There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

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.

When you start to live your life in a manner that fulfills your positive inner-self, what people think or say about you, would never control your feelings and emotions again.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

For nothing was simply one thing.