Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
I heard another pianist in Berlin who had a big success and I thought he was awful — Mischa Levitzki. Just fingers, and you cannot listen only to fingers.
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, For the lovely land."
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself.
A drop of patience: but, alas, to make meTo point his slow unmoving finger at!
In Paradise they look no more awry; there each shall choose for ever from the All.