A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

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.

You can’t get the blood out.

Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours