To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, “You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now!

To love and be loved is so precious. And, when you lose the person you love, it tears a deep hole in your heart. If the gap and void within your heart is deep, so was the love

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.