Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

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.

There is doggedness to genius. It is the ability to dig deep and hold on to the dream.

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.