After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
Years teach us more than books.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.
If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God's children, then we recognize it as spiritual. But if we use our body for more selfish purposes, then we're only experiencing its material conception.
Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.
I live a pretty anonymous life.