Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

People love conspiracy theories.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

This way of life is worth defending.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.