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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. 
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things 
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being 
The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder 
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world 
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. 
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties 
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. 
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly 
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. 
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life 
The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web 
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. 
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely 
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering. 
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many 
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. 
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. 
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. 
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. 
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? 
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. 
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends 
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. 
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment 
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. 
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still 
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. 
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. 
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. 
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. 
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. 
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. 
