But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

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.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.