Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

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.

When the last woman dies, the last man dies!

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

That perfect day, that magic moment that we're all waiting for, is right now.

I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.