What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

To search for God is to seek the truth of God.

Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.

The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.