Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

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 two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.

Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.