Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Be as you wish to seem.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

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

Custom reconciles us to everything.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

God does not play dice.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

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

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.