It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

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.

He's a contradiction and that's why he's so perfect.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.