It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

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.

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.

But I'm concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

The Hulk was the beginning of me, a platform as an actor to grow.

Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.