We do not write as we want, but as we can.

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 you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success

Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.

There's no one to mourn for a life that love stole.

Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life.

I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.

NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.