On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

I believe that change keeps you young.

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know.

Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

You have to believe in the process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.

But a dauntless faith believes

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.