Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

A promise must never be broken.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

Ice-T is so old that the first thing he bought with the money from his album sales was his freedom.

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.