On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

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.

Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.

When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.

Happiness is feeling confident that the god of this universe is pleased with the things you say and do.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.