At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

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.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

I have more confidence than I ever have before.

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...