I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

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.

As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.

You should focus on those things that will lead you to succeed instead of wasting your time on trivial issues.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.