Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.
New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.