When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

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.

At this point I'm sure he's more plastic than person, but most people who hate wrinkles become Daleks over time, anyway.

Courage to dare is the strength to endure.

Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Here lies my past Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids I wouldn't have missed it.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else