The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.

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.

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.