If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

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.

This should never have happened, Brishen. We were unimportant, you and I. We weren't supposed to mean anything to anyone.""Woman of day, " he said slowly. "You mean everything to me.

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb?

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.