We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

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.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.

It's unreal. I mean, the dog backflips. It's amazing. Google Jumpy on YouTube - I had seen the dog first and I was like, "Y'all don't even know."

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.