Love is our true destiny.

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.

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

If you’re tired of style, you are tired of life.

I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.