She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

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.

Her love for him was almost like a pain in itself.

Good reputation and growth doesn´t mean to God that the church is alive.

The way you think is what you are.

Money makes the man.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.