True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

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

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

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.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

Dont forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

We have to dare to be ourselves however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it

One does not find oneself by pursuing ones self but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine... who one is and wants to be.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

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.

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

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

For any writer who wants to keep a jounal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets to flowers, to what you're reading.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything " except itself.

Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.

No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.