Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

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.

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

People need appreciation from more persons than they need love from one person.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

All who have come to me must have enema each day.

Oh its real, its damn real

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.