Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

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.

[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily life has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.