I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

The buck stops here!

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

Example is leadership.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

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.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

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

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

When in doubt, don’t.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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.

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

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.