And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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 you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

The abundant life should include all that life has freely given you – love, good health, success, prosperity, happiness, joy, spirituality, fulfilment, wisdom, purpose, growth and excitement.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.

To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.