You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?