One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.

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.

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.