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"Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen."
"My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian, what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else."
"When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us."
"And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany."
"There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer."
"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
"His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto."
"When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great."
"The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature."
"What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote."
"If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties."
"The shortest answer is doing the thing."
"I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself."
"Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won."
"I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were."
"Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing."
"My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different."
"Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life."
"As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul."
"Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers."
