Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

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.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes without religion he cannot know why.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

There is no way I'm going to doubt myself at all.

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.