Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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.

Fire is loud, full of rage and chaos and destruction.

She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.