Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

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.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

I recreate myself

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Cake and tea or death?

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.