Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.
I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself occupied. But that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling. . . the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more open the other things may find that they can come through.