If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax and float.

Faith is the great cop-out the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of even perhaps because of the lack of evidence.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

My family frankly they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

I knew that there were several among African-American leaders who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.