Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

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.

Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

To enjoy the nectar of life, I like to kiss you like a beautiful bee kisses the flower.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.