It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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.

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Life goes quickly, doesn't it?

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.