Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

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.

it will be miraculous, very miraculous.

Live and let live.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.