Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

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 there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.

Understanding is the antidote against antagonism in every relationship.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Perenelle shuddered. "You know I hate leprechauns more than almost anything.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

We salute the rank not the man

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.