Continuous eloquence is tedious.

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.

When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart.

You can have what you wish in the sacred time.

You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?

Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.