Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

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.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.

God doesn't make you a bigot. You're just a bigot.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.