Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

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.

But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors