Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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.

You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!

I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.