Fire is a good companion for the mind.

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.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

The Saviour of the light liberates soul into the light.

Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.