‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

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.

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.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. ( "The hidden sides of his character" )

We always fail to recognize when we are at fault, but we are always eager to blame others.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?

The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.