Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

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.

Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.

Obedience is less painful than regret.

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

You want to know as much information as possible because it helps you make more informed decisions, but that's not always possible. There are a lot of different factors surrounding it.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Michael Jackson was a joker to his core. He loved a good joke especially if it's displayed on somebody else.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.