Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

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

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 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.

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.