I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand thinga for them to be.
I do not think that it is naïve to think that it is the tiny, particular acts of love and joy which are going to swing the balance, rather than general, impersonal charities.
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group...If a child in the...
—Katherine Paterson
— По-твоему, объяснить можно все и всегда? — Да. Я верю в это. Но я также думаю, что мы, люди, слишком ограниченны, а потому иногда просто не в состоянии постичь эти объяснения. Но ты ведь понимаешь,...
We would, all of us, be less than we are if it weren’t for those we love and who’ve loved us who have died.
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secular w...
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.
The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantl...
Only a fool is not afraid.
Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.
More personally, my intellect is a stumbling block to much that makes life worth living: laughter, love; a wiling acceptance of being created. The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do wi...
Love. That’s what makes persons know who they are. You’re full of love, Meg, but you don’t know how to stay within it when it’s not easy.
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid p...
If you’re going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can’t pick and choose who’s going to be the sparrow. It’s everybody, and you’re stuck with it.
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religiousorder. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr. Melcher's excitement in leading young peopleinto...
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.