“Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.”
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“India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.”
“I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.”
“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”
“A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.”
“People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.”
“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.”
“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”
“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”
“There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.”
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”