Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

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 child is a gift from God.

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

I'm so excited to act; that has been a huge passion for me.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

The whole white world is ours.

Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

I don't know about other people, but I love to work.

I'm a big pasta guy, but I've cut it out to stay fast and lean.