We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven.

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Use your brain, not your endurance.

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.