Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but 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.

Even if someone is already dead in front of you, knock twice on the heart who knows they might answer.

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

War will make corpses of us all.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.