In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

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.

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.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

Our faith institutions have the best product that God can offer

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.