Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

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

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

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.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

What we live by we die by.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

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

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

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.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.