The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

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.

Fall in love with the habit of learning from the great successful people who came before you, so that you don't spend the rest of your life as a stranger to success.

Ants are successful creatures

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.

I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

In an odd way, we have really destroyed two of our strongest allies against the Islamists. Saddam Hussein, and we've probably fatally undermined Bashir al Assad in Syria.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.