Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real 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.

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other’s suffering, and wedidn’t now.

Create the space and a bigger life happens

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.