Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

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.

You need to determine the field of your gift and enter into the realm of experts for that calling

Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?

God’s grace and mighty power aided us in the accomplishment of our goals.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.