In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

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.

Prayer is a sacred-utterance to God.

If you're not honest about what you want, you're never going to get anywhere.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

When you keep a secret from your parents, you're not trying to protect yourself. It's because you're trying to protect them.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.