Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

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.

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

We have to believe in us. We're the miracle of modern and changing times. Share your talents and gift, inspire others and be inspired

Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

I'm sorry about the dinner." "Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

I didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.