We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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.

oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be defeatedAgain.

When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.