Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happywith only the autonomyof their shameless spirit.

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!

Nature is the best instructor.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.