A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

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.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

The wonder in our life should always point the greater wonder of the Father.

Our lust for earthly and material things marks the Genesis of our destruction.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.