The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
..Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.”
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it.