Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.

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.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.