What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

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.

Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

I want to keep things simple and keep my energy focused on moving forward.