Timeless Words, Rediscovered

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.