Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

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 us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.

Words can't fix my life.Words can't give me a family.Words can't do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.

If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.