To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.

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.

If I always stuck up for what I had, I would have missed the most amazing things I have today. What are you fighting for that you need to let go? Release the magic within. The magic of what could be.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

He thought moving to a small town would allow him to find a way to get along to some extent but people were just plain idiots.

Drink my friends. You can never drink too much alcohol when you have drunk too much sorrow.” - Peter Kotara.

That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.