The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

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.

Keep on dreaming. Keep on believing. It is free. And it is a choice.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?