Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

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.

Your coming to Christ is not for you to fill up the seats or to take part in rites

Mad – empty – crazy – lost – dying... I was all of these things and nothing as well, because even though I breathed and moved, I was not alive.

Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

While I love working on dramatic characters and stories, it's comedy that I love the most. For me, it's incredibly rewarding to make a person laugh. Laughter is one of the greatest parts of life.

You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.