There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

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 not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

I love to entertain. And I love the sound of people enjoying themselves.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

I've always said that music is like literature.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.