All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.

May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply being alive gift enough for you to feel grateful?

Well, the next attack in the United States will be larger than 9/11. And there's no doubt that if they have a weapon of mass destruction, they'll use it.

As far as I know, my husband never had a baby.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.