We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

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

Four legs good, two legs bad.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

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

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

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

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

All men are equal before fish.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

We are all special cases.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Racism is real in this country.

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

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.