When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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

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

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Nobody knows me.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.