Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

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.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?

Achievement without fulfillment "High achievement without fulfillment is a broken way of life."

Love is nothing but giving, tolerating and sacrificing.

A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.