When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

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.

Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.

The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

Feels like a midget is hanging from my necklace

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.