Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

If you say the Holy Rosary every day, with a spirit of faith and love, our Lady will make sure she leads you very far along her Son's path.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.