Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

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.

I relish my life. It’s the one I have. It’s difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings – it’s mine.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.