Where I create, there I am true.

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.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Do something completely unrelated to your goals, and feel good about it. We all need rest, recreation, and a reminder that there is more to life than pursuing our goals.

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

America has got to learn to take a joke.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.