Samuel Butler Quotes

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the core and how a lot of what we think and believe is based around our spiritual beliefs.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?

A man's man has no problems with commitment, as long as he's not with a woman who needs to be committed.

I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, 'Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room? What the hell is he doing?' I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.

Money is not God, and human dignity is very important.

Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

I have my relationship with God and myself, and that's what matters to me. I really don't care what most people think.

I'm black, and I'm human. I'm a woman, and I'm human. I believe in God, and I am human.

I won't do things for money. I can't.

A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.

I'm not going to change me just for some extra money.

We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.

My faith is super important to me and it is who I am, but I don't ever want my faith to be used to judge me for other decisions that I've made or to have that questioned because that doesn't go over well with me.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I've been approached to do reality shows, but even though the fees are very, very attractive, I always say no because money should never be your motivation.