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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
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You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
