Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing

Success in business isn’t about being right; it’s about being committed.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.