Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

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.

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.