It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

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.

Holy words, Holy faith.

Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them.

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

I'm always so raw and unguarded. I'm always open to everything and everyone - or at least try - so I can be vulnerable and touched by everything at all times, which in turn is really inspiring.

Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.