If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

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.

When God made up this world of ours He made it long and wide And meant that it should shelter all And none should be denied.

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur

I have always loved animals since I was very young.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

I try not to look for messages in films.

There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future.