The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

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.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.

He was a hateful terrorist who will be missed by all.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.