It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

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.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.