I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

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.

Each flower is a field smile, every man is the soul of the world.

The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.