Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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.

What do I love when I love my God?

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

We must serve the Lord, our God with all our heart, with all our soul and in everything be devoted to Him

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.