Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

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.

Alles wat ik van het leven weet maakte ik me buiten de muren van de school eigen, en zodra ik me binnen die muren bevond leek het of ik achterwaarts leefde.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.