Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Lorraine once told me, smile big when you’re sad. Smile big when you’re happy. Smile big when you’re bored. Because regardless how you feel, your face could use a stretch.

I don't know about forever, but I love you just the same.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.