The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

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.

I thought you might supply some tendernessI lackedBut out of all the things I offered you took mybreath awayand now I want it back

I don't care... Actually i do... That's the whole problem...

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.

I know he would die if you died, Luce

I always wanted to teach.

Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.