We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
Fear is a huge thing for older people.
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
Fear is a huge thing for older people.
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.