The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

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.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

Confidence doesn't come from what you think you know, it comes from what you already know.

Reason is not always reasonable

We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible.

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.