How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

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 never had a chance to learn how to drive.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

It is good to love many things

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.