Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.

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.

God can only relate effectively with you when you relate with people

The darkness is no place to be in times like this.

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.