Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

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.

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here