The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

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.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried

Some would say that they are terrorists. Others would say that they are freedom fighters. It depends on which side of the flames you are on...

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.

It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.