We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

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.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.