Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

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.

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.