If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

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 you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?