I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

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.

What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

I know stuff about 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Star Wars,' but 'Star Trek,' I don't know.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.