One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

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.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.