My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

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.

To make initial inroads into manifesting a new life, first one has to acknowledge their current life.

Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.

A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!

If there's no bread cakes are very good.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

When people all wear the same thing, people notice. They aren't stupid. People don't go, "Oh, you can see right through them!"

You've got to know business before you go to show business.