Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

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.

It was ridiculous to think that twelve people could “turn off’ all their biases and prejudices and make a logical decision based on the evidence they were allowed to hear in the trial.

I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.