Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

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.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

What we think, we become.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

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.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

God always has patience.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

The die is cast.

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

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

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

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

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.

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

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

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

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

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.