Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
. . . aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.
The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.