Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.

Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.