You must overcome death by finding God in it.

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.

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human right

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

Anger doesn't win games.

Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

I really love having lots of down time with my kids.