Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

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.

Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.

He kissed my lips, his skin warm in spite of the cool winter wind whipping past us. His whisper would have been lost on me before, but now I heard every word. “What do you want, Raven?

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Healing is learning to trust life.

If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone