By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

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.

My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.

Rarely does a candidate think ahead and take the time to understand what the hiring company's priorities are, and then carefully presents himself as a 'solution' to the company's existing gaps/needs.

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.

I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.