A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is--try to please everybody.
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure- which is: try to please everybody.
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Until you go and grow MAD with and in your true passion and purpose, you cannot enter the realm of meteority which is enemical to mediocrity.
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Give your mind permission to travel where the body cannot go and be open to all the wisdom that the universe has to offer.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.
