Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Hell is other people.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.