The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

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