Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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.
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.
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.