What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"