Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

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.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that’s more terrible than dying—more terrible than dying young.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

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.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.