He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.
I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my hear when mine is done with beat...
While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful...
Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our...
Many people think I can't live a normal life because I don't have arms or legs. I could choose to believe that and give up trying. I could stay at home and wait for others to take care of me. Instead, I choose to believe that I can do anything, and I...
Men have dragged us by our hair through the ages, and whether they give us crumbs or bright, shiny rocks, they truly give us nothing at all. If you have not opened your legs for them so that they could drawl out as babies or crawl in as men, they the...
