Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.