Silence is so accurate.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.
People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a car on the beach at night. One character says, "I'm going to play you this great track. " She pushes in a cassette tape, and they listen to about 45 seconds of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust. " You can actually see the pleasure registering on their faces, but it takes time, and audiences have appreciated that.
The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience. . . Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.