a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

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.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

When you are willing to be everything that you are, you become an infinitely creative source for everything in your life - including money.

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

I really enjoy fusing text and music.

Everybody loves me, babies, dogs, ya know, hot girls, cougars. I just have unbelievable mass appeal.

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.