Violence is essentially wordless and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

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.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

A pond with one fish is better than an ocean with none.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.