Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?

From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?