Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

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.

Always convert your time into wisdom

When someone criticizes you, give them two gifts- your smile and a compliment.

If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

I think all presidents should have teenage girls before they become presidents. If you can handle those hormones, you can handle anything.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.