Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.

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.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.

Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.

Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.