The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

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.

Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?

Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind.

The cloaked figure leaned over and I turned my head just as I heard the crack of bones.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

I don't think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.