Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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.

If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.

I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

It's nice when they say I inspire them, it inspires me

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.