I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

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

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

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

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

The less you know, the more you believe.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.