A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

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.

...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford

If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.

When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful-we hold the key to freedom.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.