Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

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 love you, Vic! Anything else is lies. I really, truly love you. I’ll love you until the day I die.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Sometimes you don't feel the hits from the game until you're at home on the couch.

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

What I love doing is taking my dog for runs.