Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

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.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

It was then that I realized. There are a thousand ways to break a girl...but it only takes one to kill her. -Alyssa 'Blame It on the Pain

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

I release all control to the Universe. I am at peace with myself and with life.

Everything has an end.

I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...