Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

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.

John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand.

But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls, ' he wrote back, 'This is my home.

I think, ” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

All actors should experience public failure.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

My dancers are the real stars.

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.