The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

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.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal, ' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.

Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.