Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recognize and taste it.

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.