I believe in a passion for inclusion.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

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.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

A true man hates no one.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

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

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

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

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.