when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.

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 never felt I had to prove myself with anything.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.

All mothers are working mothers.

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.