If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

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.

She asks me silly questions. Like how much do I love her?I smile and look at the sky for how do I tell her that it is she who gives me my existence...

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.