I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Who, being loved, is poor?

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.