Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

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.

The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.