Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

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.

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.

If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it.

While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.