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.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

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.

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.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

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.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

We are wiser than we know.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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?

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.