Experience is a question of instinct about life.
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
I've never seen the devil create music.
And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
I think that a man should be caring.
Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.
Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.