In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague. . . they make art impossible.
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.
We live in a society now where it's very rare for your parents to be around. It used to be like, your mother, grandmothers, your family around would help. Now, you're surrounded by other moms and friends and it's really disorienting, because there's such varying, crazy, different points of view and advice coming at you.
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen. "