What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

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.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The object of the superior man is truth.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

The lie is a condition of life.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

All men are equal before fish.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.