You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned.

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

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