'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'
Peace does not mean no war…..Peace means Love
GRACE means God does the work. FAITH means I let Him.
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.
The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.
Nothing has meaning, only the meaning you give it.
For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
A guest will not know what fasting means.
A young doctor means a new graveyard.
Calm water does not mean there are no crocodiles.
As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I had...
Sometimes your dreams come true.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.
In math, the backwards E, ∃, means there exists. ∈ means part of a set. A line through that ∉ means excluded from. Everyone ∃, but not everyone ∈. We all feel that, unless we ∈, we do not ∃.
In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.
