Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
It was not an end, it was a beginging.
A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
Wild nights are my glory!
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn’t diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe...
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.