Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

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.

[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

In mystical terms, the law of attraction specifies that you will attract to yourself those experiences that match your beliefs.

I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

It is a category mistake to ask, 'Who made the Unmade?' or 'Who created the Uncreated?' One may as well ask, 'Where is the bachelor's wife?'

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.