“Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

“Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.”

“Everyone, in some small secret sanctuary of the self, is nuts.”

“I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths.For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.”

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”

“Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”