Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

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.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

A heart can only become fragile if unconditional self-love is continuously deprived from it.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

Clothes are incredibly symbolic.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.