The journey, not the destination, matters...
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it.’
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Teach us to care and not to care.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
In my beginning is my end.
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.