Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

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

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

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.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

I just want to lobby for God.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I know love is the answer.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

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

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.