“I believe because it is absurd.”

For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.

Christians are made, not born.

Patience is God’s nature.

Those who fled will fight another time.

They can because they think they can.

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

I believe the Japan-U.S. alliance is the only indispensable alliance, and I’d like to use my visit to further strengthen this relationship.

I just want to continue the way I am going.

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

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