It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

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.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.