Your poems will happen when no one is there.

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.

Room service? Send up a larger room."]

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.