(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A lie never lives to be old.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The lie is a condition of life.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

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

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

[Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!