One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker,

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.