Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

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.

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.

I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.