[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

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.

Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.