Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

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.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.

The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

Marco Rubio is really to the right of Chris Christie, when Jeb Bush and John Kasich and he hasn't been able to pull away from them.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.