The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

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.

Stupid Wars are easy to start but hard to end.

I swear he's just so freaking smoldering, you have to see him." She shakes her head, annoyed that I can't join in on the fun. "He's like combustible!

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.