Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

...I like stories very much, ” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Virtually all success depends on trying things that fail.

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders".