So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

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.

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.

We believe in a strong dollar. Chinese financial assets are very safe.

He who can be a good son will be a good father.