And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

From 1836 down to last year there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace or possessing increased security against war.

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

My diminished girth in tailor phraseology was hardly conceivable even by my own friends or my respected medical adviser until I put on my former clothing over what I now wear which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet this ancient concept which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction accepted by our knowledge and judgment that it is so.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew but rather to impress upon them that nothing not even... knowledge was foolproof.

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually just as we monitor money and GDP.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life and that happiness not pain or mindless self-indulgence is the proof of your moral integrity since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.