This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.

I wish your increase in holiness number love religion and righteousness and wait you and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

We know too much and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion and so is our religion.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping and like the grave cries 'Give give.'

Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.

All through the years since World War II the Japanese people have I am convinced made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

America's state religion is patriotism a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Early in the morning I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time we were so naive. I wanted to charm her so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong do right. Men will believe what they see.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.