The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

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.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Every member ... a missionary!

The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.