My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.