If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

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.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

I just want to keep writing music.

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.