Space for the Spirit to breathe.

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.

Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.

I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.