I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

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.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I want to be in ‚Avatar‘. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

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

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

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

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

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.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.