You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

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 going even when the going is slow and uncertain.Make your dream your prayer and your service.Don’t wait for recognition. Let it find you working. Romanticize authenticity instead of perfection.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

Your truth should be so pure that if lifts a person's soul to the heights.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things.

When I see that people are touched, and they feel solidarity with him, I say to myself, "I made a little change."

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution