“In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ”

“In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.”

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

“Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.”

“Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.”

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.”

“One day the world will be so badly wounded that those who try to repair it will only be called "close-minded.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”

“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”

“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience thro...”

“To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.”