The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

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.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

The only reason you should move to a new job is if you are not getting the opportunity to do what you want to do and what you believe you can do.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.