The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

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.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.