Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

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.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.

I never let the worst things in life get the best of me. So take these testes and, ummm...open sesame.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

Priority is a function of context.

You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?