life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

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.

A dog has got human eyes.

Failure is an event never a person.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.