There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

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.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.