Love winter when the plant says nothing.

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.

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.

Life is very tough sometimes, but never tougher than a highly determined positive mind.

If they finally move, is it because they are warm enough, or is it that they are stiff, or bored?

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Years teach us more than books.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.