"There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork."
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"You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take."
"The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life."
"Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten."
"There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away."
"I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera."
"Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless."
"God does not look at your outer forms, but at the love within your love."
"The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love."
"There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation."
"True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind."
"The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake."
"There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies."
"It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested."
"No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent"
"Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such."
"Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society."
"The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change."
"Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms."
"I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form."