Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

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.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

In life, everything awaits in the shadows for the suitable time to come out! All waits silently in the nooks! Observe the shadows and the nooks to guess what will happen!