Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

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.

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible