Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

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.

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time.

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.