I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Pray, and let God worry.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

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

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

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.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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

I believe in being an innovator.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.