How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

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.

In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

I've found when all I'm eating is really fresh, healthy foods, I stop craving pizza and burgers.

People who have stuck to their vision and mission no matter what. They inspire me. The people who wake up to non-glamorous lives to continue pushing to do what God has called them to do.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!