The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.
Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.
You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.