Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

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.

Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes, ' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.

Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

I love being home at Christmastime.

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

Fun stands for finally understnding nothing. And that's what's fun about fun, you don't have to get it.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.