Does Quotes

How does one measure the success of a museum?

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.