Art too is just a way of living.

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.

After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world - and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with a barbarian horde and...

Worry only wears the body, soul and the spirit.

He who wishes to know, must seek to understand.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Please don't let me fall.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.