S.A. David Quotes

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

Trees indeed have hearts.

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

This generation can only reach this generation.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

If someone puts you in front of a 30m high wall, tells you to get over it, and then comes back two years later and you're still there, you've made no progress. You should find another wall.

The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

The White House is saying Donald Trump has 'zero percent chance' of being elected. Isn't that a little high?

Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.