In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans. . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.
It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.