I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

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 am for people. I can’t help it.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I believe in singing.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

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

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

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

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

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

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!

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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