The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. . . The wait is simply too long.
This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.