The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

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.

Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Eyes can shed tears to reduce its pain while blubbering but what about my hearts, it does not have such capability...it only wept into frustration and frustration

A warrior never worries about his fear.

Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.