A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.

What gets recognized gets repeated

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.