Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

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.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

The aunts’ conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.

Nature answers every question.

The leadership of engagement begins by reconnecting to the physicality and the people of a company, not simply its spreadsheet. It all begins in the workplace.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

I threw all my clothes away from high school.

When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on.