I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

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.

Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.

remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

We're on tour for six months out of the year.

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.