One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

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 don't do it for Michael. I do it for them.""Them?""People.""They're broken! Flawed!""Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive.

Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

Caring for others is the basis of worldly success.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.