A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

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.

Rainbows paint the sky with different colors of love, sadness, and joy.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

Life's more amusing than we thought.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?