Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

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.

To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something

When you remove all of the barriers and open the window of your heart, love will eagerly enter through it with all its beauty.

Being good at what you do is never enough

If the gift of God is for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.