He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

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.

Sorrowful tears drench the earth, rise again in the form of hope

Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you.

To be a leader be an example and lead the way.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.