Dogs cannot make dreams come true -- people must do that.
He who has bad breath cannot smell it.
When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.
When a hen is brooding, another hen cannot sit on her eggs.
Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves.
To tell a woman what she cannot do is to tell her what she can.
You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.
Whoever does not help himself cannot help others.
Do jungle animals understand the true nature of the trees among which they have their daily being? In the parent-forest, amid those mighty trunks, we shelter and play; but whether the trees are healthy or corroded, whether they harbour demons or good...
The Mommy Mystique tells us that we are the luckiest women in the world -- the freest, with the most choices, the broadest horizons, the best luck, and the most wealth. It says we have the knowledge and know-how to make "informed decisions" that will...
The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great figures in history, narratives that stir our spirit,...
Life is full of beautiful dangers, dangerous beauties... They wound us in ways we cannot see: an injury ripples out, like a stone dropped in water, touching moments years into the future.
We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.
We are now dealing with a bizarre new morality where a woman cannot simply say, in one way or another, "I'm on the pill because I like dick.
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our p...
Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.