What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

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.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

Anything above 40 is a little too old for me. I just look for a girl who is funny and has nice eyes and a smile.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.