Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

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 we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood, ' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Spend more time with people who bring out the best in you.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.