Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

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.

Mistakes are your milestones, don't let them Stop you! Step up with them.

Never underestimate a septuagenarian with time on his hands.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.