instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

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.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.