The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

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.

It is better to seek wisdom of God than human.

It's sad how people change from the best to the beast.

Priorities are simple to establish

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.