I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing.
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.
All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most liberal, were tempted by the reactionary impulse to freeze faith in place. Because as Jesus teaches, it's easy to be threatened by the reality of the complicated, messy, syncretic, God-bearing truth that becomes incarnate among us and makes things new. We'd rather have a dead religion than a living God
Black has depth. . you can go into it. . And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.