The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

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.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Without friends you have nothing!

Just as well then that kings did not grow old.

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.