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.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.

He was beautiful in a way that pierced the heart. He was beautiful in the way the universe had been made, from darkness and silence into light and song.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.

Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.

As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light