Does Quotes

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.