I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Religion is the opium of the masses.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

I can move any crowd.

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

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

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.

They say miracles are past.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I am fearless.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

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

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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

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

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.