That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

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.

I do not have very much office experience.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

November’s a burn and an ache.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.

God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.