Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

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.

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.