We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
Theres so much to be afraid of.
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself.
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.
All parties are good.
I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other things, you wouldn't spend time listening to him. But people actually don't listen to what he's saying, in a way. They are listening to him because he has communicated that he is ready to put his life on the line.