All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

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.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

My cat has been Petrified.I want to see some punishment!

That’s what it means to be out of your mind. To let yourself be carried away by a dream. To give it room, let it grow wild and thick, until it overruns you.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.