But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

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.

Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.