True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.