Without anxiety life would have very little savor.

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.

May every soul be rescued and redeemed by the Saviour.

Desperation is the father of invention.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didnt speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.