The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

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

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

History should be written as philosophy.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.