It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.
If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.
The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently. . . And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.