Adversity is the mother of progress.

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.

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.

Science has failed our mother Earth.