It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

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.

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

That's going to be the biggest problem, to make people feel like it's cool for them to like my music.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

Look. Let’s just say he’s in Tabitha’s line of work. Okay? (Selena) Ladies’ lingerie? He hardly looks the type to sell that. (Sunshine)