We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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.

She opened her eyes and touched her lips, as though he had just kissed them. She could taste him.

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.