Does Quotes

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

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.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

The world does not need another credit card.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.