Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

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.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

Life is but a collection of habits.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.