I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

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

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

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

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

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.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

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

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

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

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional.

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

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.