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.

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.

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.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

It's true. The storms won't last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.