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.

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

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.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection.

My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

The best come from the worst

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.