Pastoral Resources

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.