Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

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.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.

My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.

When your legs get weaker time starts running faster.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.