I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Sin is geographical.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

No one but a fool is always right.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

History is written by the victors.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.