Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

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.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

Every Monday morning is new hope.

I love New York. I love working here.

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.