Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

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.

Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.