Quotes on Doe

Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.