Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I'm a strong believer in just doing your thing. No matter what.

In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Christians believe that God created man, and humanists believe that man invented God. But whichever way you look at it, we're brothers and sisters. Either we're brothers and sisters because we're children of God, or because we've banded together to invent God. So the ethics of the humanist and the ethics of some Christians are very similar. And we don't want to create divisions between humanists and Liberation Theologians, any more than we want between the New Worker and the Trots. It's not helpful.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

I have come to believe that mankind eternally hovers on the brinks of secret oceans of which it knows nothing.

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”

“These are weighty topics, and the brief fables that address them do not claim to solve the problems that they embody, but then neither do they simply brush such problems aside, pretending that they do not exist.”

“We can no longer rely on tradition, on consensus, on cultural habit, on unanimity of belief to give us our values. These agreed-upon traditions are all gone. Of course, we never should have rested on traditionas its failures must have proven to everyone by now-it never was a firm foundation. It was destroyed too easily by truth, by honesty, by the facts, by science, by simple, pragmatic, historical failure.”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

Finding God is never a good reason to end the search

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

History would be far different if we did not tend to hear God most clearly when we think He is telling us exactly what it is we want to hear