One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

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.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

All art is based on non-conformity.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.