Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

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.

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.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.

Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.

My heartfelt gratitude to my great teachers!

The more that you read, the more that you know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

I do need to travel with a purpose, though. I can't go somewhere to just hang out with friends.

We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.