I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

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.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

It's only human nature for dogs to chase motorbikes

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way