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.

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

One enemy is too many a hundred friends too few.

I like a good hater.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.