I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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

They say miracles are past.

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

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

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.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I just want to be myself.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.