The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.

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.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Jesus Christ accomplished everything that God the Father started at the creation, and that includes total health.