Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

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.

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.

I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.