In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.
I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard [Dawkins] in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the possibility that there are answers that science isn't able to provide about the natural world - the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I'm interested in the whys.
God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue. . . He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.
By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.
I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.
Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.
You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off. He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency, to his authority.
I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.
I'm not saying that I'm the grand genius that came in on a float and made it happen, but they liked my pitch. I was on my way to a camping trip with my daughter when my agent called and said, "This thing came up and it's really wild and crazy, do you want to read it?" And, I said, "Yeah, why don't you just send it to me? But, I'm going on this camping trip, so I probably won't be able to read it until I get back. "
Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.
I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.