Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.

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.

It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories.

God gives us His spirit, while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will

Experience is the best school, Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there, Offering only one lesson called Life, That you could only finish once you're dead!

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.