It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

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.

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

If we had less people who don't know what they are talking about acting like they know what they are talking about, then that's one step closer to making the world a better place.

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Education liberates a woman.

I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.