When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I’m an atheist.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Integrity has no need of rules.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.