If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.
Failure too is a form of death.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Hate is a lack of imagination.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the present— if reality's real, but after it's been destroyed in the eternal and the moment by the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.
Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home,. . .