We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

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.

There is only one attraction, one law, one power and that is the power of love.

Stay with me always, my sweet, my love . . . my Claire.

All things lie dark in possibility.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.