music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
All birth is unwilling.
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
One faces the future with one's past.
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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