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

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

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

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I’m a Christian by choice.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

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

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Computers make me totally blank out.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.