Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.