Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

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.

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.