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

Truth is, I will never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

He is a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you are happy?

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.