We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party.

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

For us to change history, we first need to change the future.

Dream the dream onward.

We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

The sun is but a morning star.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.