“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.”

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said “yes,” when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Life is for service.

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love begins with listening.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.

My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.

I am so confident in that idea that if love gets a chance, it will transform the community and the world into a more prosperous place, because we are capable of love.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.