Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

We are all blessed, but there are people who have special favor and grace with God

My position as a follower of God is not to show you how close I am to God—my job is to show you how close you are to God […]. (Simon)

We live what we create. We create what we live.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.

When I said Iniesta was the world's best, you laughed. Now you can see I'm right.

Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.