Everyone once once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.

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.

Beauty is seeing, the world through colored glass, of seeing everything in its glory, it's all it ever asks.

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.

Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

In your quietest moments appear your most true thoughts.

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.