“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
