The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

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.

Perfection is born of imperfection.

May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.

Prayer is divine.

Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.