If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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.

Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.

He who knows more is more responsible.

I felt very comfortable on a set - incredibly comfortable on a set, which is a real gift because that can be hugely intimidating.

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.

I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross.

They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.