You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

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.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

I don't think people believe that any more, I don't think people think that it really matters whether you appreciate Henry James more than Theodore Dreiser.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir.

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.