I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

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.

People ask without wanting to know.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

there's only one thing we can depends on when we dying, it's faith .

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!

We all have our strengths and our failings.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.