It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

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.

One of the biggest problem is to notice everything, Secrets and lies kill relationships.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

The U.S. can no longer be the sheriff for the whole world. We can't be everywhere, and we can't always use military boots on the ground. We have to plan with people who have boots on the ground.

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.