He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

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.

life is too short so no need to shorten it with sadness

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

[Donald] Trump still thinks he's in a campaign.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

Egoist is someone who cares more for himself than me.

If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.