The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

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.

The momentum of all those wheels are too great for one person's passionate will.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.