The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.

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.

This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Do something worth remembering.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.