Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.
A father is a man who fails every day.
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.
Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?
Occasionally one speaks. . . of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.
I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.