"You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'"
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"When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'"
"Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers."
"What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?"
"In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question."
"When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?"
"During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution."
"Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason."
"I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me."
"Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers."
"As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well."
"I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail."
"The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction."
"For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know."
"To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny"
"The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice."
"You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself."
"His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve."
"If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question."
"An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions."