If you would venture, let your mind be bold. . . not reckless but bold.
We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1. 25 billion people of the country.
In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.