Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

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.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.