How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

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.

If you tell a person about paradise, It becomes a dream.If you show a person paradise, It becomes a goal!

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.