Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

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.

If you believe someone believe blindly either you get a good relation or a good lesson

Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.

The body is an amazing system.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

I'm a pants girl. I just feel more comfortable in them.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

I have done everything that I wanted to do, and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it's very exciting. There is nothing else to do.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.