There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‚Well, good on you. See you there.‘

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

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

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

I don’t have anything to hide.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.