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

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

History is more or less bunk.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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

It is easier to be critical than correct.

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

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

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

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

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

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

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

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

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.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.