Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save 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.

When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.

It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.

Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health. Because how are you going to do all that marching if you are not in good health?

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

I will never reach perfection.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.