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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
"There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided."
"Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact."
"He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done."
"Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then."
"If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
"In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction."
"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world."
"That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working."
"Prayer does not change God; it changes me."
"Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue"
"What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?"
"How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?"
"The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams."
"Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved."
"Education does not necessarily make one wise?"
"If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman."
"He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly."
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
"He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right."
