Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

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.

They haven’t changed Zach

Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.