I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called '...
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.
Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.
