Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

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.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.