God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.

Reason is the illusion of reality.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

There is no end to one’s faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.