When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

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.

In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.

People always say you can't win if you don't play

If you are strong enough, you can enjoy even in the middle of a storm!