The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.
The problem with aging was not that death was near, for death was always near. The problem with aging was that a woman began to carry too many memories within her.
You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems.
There is no problem on earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.
It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.
My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.
Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.
Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.
Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.
