All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

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.

When you find yourself internally, you find what nourishes you from within. You lose that entitlement and anger when YOU deliver.

Writing gives me wings.

The hardest thing on earth is to know the ways of men and still manage to be in good spirits.

Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.