Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact come to know anything.

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.

A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

In any profession, there are always ups and downs.

where the world ends is where you must begin

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.