A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

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.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

Even with or without the show I'm always thinking of the next thing. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. That's kind of been the story of my career.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.