When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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.

How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong.

I went to the airport, I put my bag in the x-ray machine, I found out my bag has cancer. It only has six more months to hold stuff.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.