To dance is human, to polka is divine.
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.
To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes. . . Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.