The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

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.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.

Repetition is the death of art.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.