Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

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.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

I refuse to put God into a little box I can handle, for that would insult us both.

People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.

I was born to score goals, I feel.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.