Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

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.

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

Learn your past, find your path.

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'