No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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.

For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.

A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

I have a troubled relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, not just because he kicked me out of a bar but also because it's become clear to me that he was not a good person.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value.

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.