It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

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.

Forget not the Sacred Sands...The grains that pass through Time’s ancient hands!

You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.

To still your mind, first still your tongue.

Power of WordsEvery word that you speak, Will either make you feel strong or weak.When you use words, be aware, People who use the right words, well in life they fare.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.