All children have creative power.
The greatest writers of this age. . . are aware of the mystery of our existence.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor. . . If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.
You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.