Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

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.

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.