We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

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.

No outside events can disturb your inner peace.

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

The sun shines on all and all alike, It's not surprising that we feel good when we immerse ourselves in nature.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?