In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

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.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.