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

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.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

They say miracles are past.

There is no gambling like politics.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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

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.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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.

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

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

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.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

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.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

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.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.