The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

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.

I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.