At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

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.

Rejected by man, yet accepted by the Maker.

Be careful of the friends you frequently expose your mind to, because they could succeed in realigning the direction of your life.

It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.