Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

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.

You have immense power. You are a god. You are a silent sun hiding in the earth as a human.

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.