The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Worrying about things you can't control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life.

Do not let fear keep you on the sidelines. Your number has been called, get in the game! It is your time to shine.

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.