It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

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.

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.

You must look for the good in people to have more of it appear. As you look only for the good things in a person, you will be amazed at what your new focus reveals.

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.