Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

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.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.