A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.