Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

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.

De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur et d'être simplement heureux.

Don't you realize, " Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.

We have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them.

The men and women of America who have been forgotten will never be forgotten again.

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing.