The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

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.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

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.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

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.

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

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.