Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave. I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead. In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.
Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.
One keeps healthy in wartime. . . by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.