It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

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 goal should make you feel excited when you think about it.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: It represses women, it's generally illegal.

Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.