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I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

You can easily substitute the intellect for true devotion. Devotion comes from the heart, and from the will. The intellect, you can cerebrally answer things, but you make a big mistake when that happens.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.

When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marry?' they said, 'Oh I married to get away from home.' And when I said, 'And why don't you leave him?' they gave the saddest answer in the world: they said, 'Where would I go?' So they stayed with men they didn't like because they had nowhere to go.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him

there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.