By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

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.

I write. See you there.

Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.

Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.

Opportunity will always meet you exactly where you stand.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be.

If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.