Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

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.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Champions are made in the dark before they are revealed in light.

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.

To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.