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

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.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.

Stop complaining. Be grateful for every circumstance.

You are not going to loot a candy shop in the middle of a war!

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

You are more important than your problems.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.