For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

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.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

A child sees possibilities

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such

Now everybody has some secret goals in life.