S.A. David Quotes

My profession is to always find God in nature.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

There is no health without mental health.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

You don't fight for peace. You Peace for Peace.

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and...the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.

Every act we perform today must reflect the kind of relationships we are fighting to establish tomorrow.

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

You'll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!

Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

Being upbeat is the key to life.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.