More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.

You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.