I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

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.

If I love one lover, ...I have loved many more.

Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

I cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.