If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

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.

Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.