I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

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.

Humility is not an attribute but a key to development.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school.

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.