It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

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 was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

A human life is a story told by God.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.