Al David Quotes

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

There's no such thing as forever.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.

Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Here or nowhere is our heaven.

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

We must look a long time before we can see

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

We are older by faith than by experience.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

Hate can pardon more than love.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

As for health, consider yourself well.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.