Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

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.

Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.