In those days, it didnt take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. – Phil Harris
There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in ones self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. – Michelangelo
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. – Henry Louis Gates
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. – Alan Watts