Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
