Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

Pray for God's mercy in the moment of misfortune.

All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

Accept God’s best for your life.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.