Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Life must be lived as play.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.