Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

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.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

I believe I am an honorable man.

You are enough. You are so enough, it is unbelievable how enough you are.