My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

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.

Your opinion is not my reality.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

I want every business to compete and thrive.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

Impossible is just an opinion, nothing else!