What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

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.

I'm not perfect and I will not be one day.But I'm a human with mistakes and I do reconcilie with my mistakes

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.