I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

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.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Be gentle, confident and action-oriented. Remember, your actions will make a difference.

Invite TranquilityThe sea, --Something to look atWhen we are angry.

Family is more than blood

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.