There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

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 someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.

The moon blows kisses to the evening primrose

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.