There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love

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.

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.

I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.