The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

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.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

He created us for adventure, not ease.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.