All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

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.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.

I didn't answer. Just shook my head and let the tears roll. "I just want it to go away. I just want all the drama to stop. Nobody would believe me anyway, " I whispered. "Nobody would care.

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.