There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

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.

Where the cheerful childrenof unwritten poems, play all around, you will find me there.

French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

If we act like children of God, knowing that he loves us, our lives will be made new, filled with serenity and joy.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.