When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.
Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no. ' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.
That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.
Batman is the one you go to for answers and Clark Kent is the one you go to to really do the right thing. He stands as a shining example of what to do in any situation.
You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.
Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.
The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.
You will find no answers here, just choices.
I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.
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.
We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.
You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen, they come out of one's own mind. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.