A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

In every voyage, be fully present.

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.

It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.

I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.