In American life, we think we are most free when we don't need anybody. Exactly what Alzheimer's represents is absolute dependency - That's what we all need to learn - how deeply we need one another.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat . . .We must find each other.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

All real living is meeting.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.