Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

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.

Everything changed...even the things we didn't want to.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

No one can upset you, unless you give them permission.

I believe what Irenaeus said - the glory of God is a human being fully alive.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.