Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

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.

It is necessary to understand who you are

Men should be what they seem.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill,

Weakness derives from the soul. Most everyone has one, which gives a woman like me leverage. Leverage to play people to my liking, and so I do.

They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.