Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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.

We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.

Over my pile of ashes

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.