"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash

"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is." - Bhagavad Gita

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." - Henry Louis Mencken, Prejudices

"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe." - SAINT AUGUSTINE, Sermons

"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove." - BIBLE, Matthew 17:20

"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books

"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them!" - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther

"Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires." - JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, Fables

"Here I stand. I can do no other." - MARTIN LUTHER, speech (1521)

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays

"You're not free
until you've been made captive by
supreme belief."
- MARIANNE MOORE, Spenser's Ireland

"It is certain because it is impossible." - TERTULLIAN, De Carne Christi

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. written in 1978 and published in 1985, Dick describes a student friend asking him in 1972 for a one-liner about reality for a paper, and this quote is what he came up with.'" - Dick, Philip K. quoted in 'How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later' (1978) 19

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." - Dick, Philip K. in 'How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later' 1978

"Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." - Russell, Bertrand

"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

"He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not." - Unknown