Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

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.

Learning is like the fuel that moves the machinery of your body towards it's destination of success. Shortage is possible, hence spare supply is necessary!

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.