When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time.

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.