To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

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.

I Wish This To Never End.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime, and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.