To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

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.

Passion is the 'not-so-secret' ingredient to success. Passion drives hard work, persistence and creativity.

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!

Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

Nothing spiritual to write? Then have spiritual experiences.

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.