Admiration spoils all from infancy.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

The mind creates those things that exist.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.

it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.

I'm proud of my sexuality.

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man

The question we should be asking. Would I want to be sponsored by me?

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"