Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

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.

The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes, ” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.

Words are divine force.

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.

All in all. You have been. Redeemer. Pain Steeler. My best friend. Please hold my hand.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.