The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

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.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.