Our heart always transcends us.

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.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence, they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.

I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths.

I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

All are not merry that dance lightly.

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending money on other things that we could have spent the money on.

There are Muslims, who are moderate Muslims. And there's more of them than there are radicalized Muslims and are using Islam in its misinterpreted ideology.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.