Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

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.

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

Real friends, are really hard to come by.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

He might want to watch where he lands when tackling that guy, because he could really hurt his hand if it gets stepped on.

I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.