It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

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.

It is far too late for bloodless hands.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

...everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

All good things are wild and free.

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

I can always go back to waiting tables, but I won't be very good at it. I'll never be good at it.

They don't know you're secretly a badass?