“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.”

“Blank verse really deserving the name I believe to be impossible except to one or two eminent writers in a generation.”

John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar

“Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.”
Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri, Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.

Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus

“Anyone from anywhere can do anything.”

Tyler Joseph (1988) American singer-songwriter and record producer

“The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“That’s almost like the daft things you believe when you’re really little, like I use to believe I could fly. I believed it for years, but it had to be kept secret. I knew if I ever told anyone or showed it off to anyone, I’d lose the power. And if I doubted it, and tried it out just to see, I’d lose the power — so I didn’t. I believed in it. I knew I would be able to fly when there really was a need. Which, fortunately for me, there never was.”

Jane Rogers book The Testament of Jessie Lamb

“If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen”

Amy Lee (1981) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”

James Baldwin book Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

“Have faith in creator of this universe believe that he is omnipresent and Supreme power.”

Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism