How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

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.

Money takes our minds off God.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Finally, as I've said, this is - why are you talking about Jewish women's wigs and people wearing turbans? That has nothing whatsoever to do with niqab.

Only you can impact the world in the way that God uniquely assigned to you.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.