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

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

Time stays, we go.

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

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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

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

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

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

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.