Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Nothing can come of nothing.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Hell is other people.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

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

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.