Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

The dream came again—three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.

Signal transduction science recognizes that the fate and behavior of an organism is directly linked to its perception of the environment.

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.