You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Maybe don't make it so.
Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.
I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.
What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.