Doe Quotes
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
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What man is a man who does not make the world better.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.
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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
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Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
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Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.
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May Allah bless the man who says less and does more.
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Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.
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I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.
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No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
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Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
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A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
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Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.
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Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
