Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

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.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.

The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I'll stand by that until the day I die!

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.