Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

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.

A tap is a zero-length swipe.

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound.

I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

Ability means all of us finding our strengths and putting them to full use.

The more we dwell on what we don't want, the more we get it.

If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.