making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

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.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

We have a problem

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

We pay billions - hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are in theory wealthier than we are.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.