Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

everything happens for a reason.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything?