It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

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.

He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.

If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live.

That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.

Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.