...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

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.

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof

You might belong in Gryffindor where dwell the brave at heart. Their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.