Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

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.

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.

I fall hard and I fall fast, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

Freedom has never been free.

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

But I want you to know, and I want you to have it very clear that I did NOT quit on each and everyone of you. No. Because you guys have never quitted on me.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."