No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

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.

Love is the opposite of fear. It is free and transcends all space and time. Love is infinite.

Watch, how the sunslowly risesfrom behind my earnew lines, new countriesspring up in my palmsmy rough hairbecome swaying silkand all the leavesin my bodybecome lusher than fruits.

All things human begin with words.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.