There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

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.

Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.