The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.
Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.
Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.
No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.
Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.
The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
