I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.
It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.
Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
What matters is the imaginative truth.
Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
It is the Mass the matters.
It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
It's not always what you say that matters, sometimes it's what you don't say.
No matter how small you start, start something that matters.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don't bring what matters to bear on the world.
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.