Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

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.

I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.

I'm just blessed because I'm Mexican. Mexican Americans have amazing hair!

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!