We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.

Love can only be found through the act of loving.

If I must fall, may it be from a high place.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?