You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

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.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.