Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life.

If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.

There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.