You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

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.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

The circulation of money is like the sharing of cake. The one that holds the knife controls the portion you get.

It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

Well, yeah. You said you wanted Italian. See. Chef Boyardee. He makes one the best stuff. (Tabitha)

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.