You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

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.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return...

The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.

Hug the shore

We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn't be eating anything that has a label on it!

Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don't even need to add sugar.

When you come to the end, that's where God begins.

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.