The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

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.

It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.

Opportunities are all around you, you just need to be able to see them.