S.A. David Quotes

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

Never go in a place that you wouldn't take your wife.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

The Lord help me to press after God forever

Take care of yourself, and do unto others as you would have done to you.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.

I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.