Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

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.

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.

Authentic sources. Many authentic sources.

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.