I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

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.

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

Soon the cold would force them inside, so they clutched at lost summer.

The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.