They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

All this has been created from self-fault and self-imagination!

Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love.

All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth bases loaded no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.

My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.