I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

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.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Evil to some is always good to others

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.