Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

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.

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.

You can never know where I am or what I am, But I am good company to you nonetheless, And really do regret I broke your ink

Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.