Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.
Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.
The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.
No one is mandating merit pay.
Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?
I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're shooting up in Montana, and I'm thinking, "What the hell am I doing here? I don't feel anything like this part.