Law, without force, is impotent.

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.

I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s a clear sign of a racial infiltrator who has not done enough research.

Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.