The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.