It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.

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.

Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player,” Nita said, “I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.