For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

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.

If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem!

Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

The people are the masters of the revolution in each country.

My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.