Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

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.

Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous.

God is life. Life is divine.

True strength isn’t being able to knock your enemies down, it’s being able to hold yourself upright against their blows.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.