When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
Think of what would happen to us. . . if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.
It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.
What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.
Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
Do you believe God's whole world runs by the laws of the few sciences we have been able to discover? Oh, no, Christine, there is more. But people are satisfied. They know so much, they think they know all. And that makes it easy for Nosferatu. That makes it easy for all the devils.
We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.
When I need inspiration, I usually go into a creative "slump" and become a total sloth. I watch a lot of movies, read a lot, go see shows, and go for walks. I don't really touch my instruments because it's like I'm collecting data. I love film. I love reading. Those two mediums are often more inspiring than listening to an awesome record. Seeing what somebody else is doing in another field, it's like, "Wow! That's amazing! I want to be amazing at what I'm doing!"