A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

You should not doubt that you can accomplish something bigger

If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.

Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.

You have more power than you think. Be careful what you do with it.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.