It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

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 you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.

When i thought i was learning to live I was learning to die

It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.

When people say I'm powerful, it scares me in a way. If you saw what I see when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't think that either.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.

I would be surprised if Donald Trump got elected.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.