Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

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.

Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.