Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

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.

Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.