Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

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.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same.

It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

Sometimes you are working and you feel like walking out into the terrace, stretching, looking out and feeling the night air on your face.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

Without passion, there is no genius.

I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.