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

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.

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.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Find someone who loves you more than you love them.

I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right." - Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

Having guts always works out for me.