We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

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.

Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt