I really believed that fear is contagious.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

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

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Love is only one of many passions.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.