All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

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.

You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

Mankind needs more empathy.

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them