Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities, that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction both are transformed.
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
After all it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without, and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence though deficient in personal charms than I have been by the most regular beauty.