That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

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.

While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.

You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.

Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.

The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

Running is 80 percent mental.

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.