If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Be punctual

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.

Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.