Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

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.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.

Whenever you see the fear and sadness, be there the source of love and kindness.

If have nothing but life, I have everything.

Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.