How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

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.

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

Happiness is the heavenly light of joy.

Emotional intelligence marks one’s ability to perceive, understand, control, and evaluate his or her emotions.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.