"I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English."

"It is a belief that they hold firmly, and we need to be just as firm that we can't be driven out."

"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Years ago there was belief that the world was flat. People were born into that belief and they took it on faith that if they went too far from the shoreline in a boat they would fall off the earth. Columbus sailed on. 

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it's actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can - to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do.

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

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

For the discovery of a man's self, by the tracts of his countenance, is a great weakness and betraying; by how much it is many times more marked, and believed, than a man's words.

"This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven."

"I know too much and not enough"

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

“There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”

“Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.”

“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.”

"Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware."

”I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

“I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.” 

“He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.”