If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

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.

Sally's head plopped into the shallow water and rolled face up. For a while, the changing shades of pinks and oranges reflected across the surface of her dead eyes.

Today, I run for pure, absolute joy.

Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

People must get respect for their new ideas.

I have yet to meet a person whose favorite movie is Gigli, but I hope to meet them one day and give them a hug.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.