It takes a long time for words to become thought.

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.

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.