Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

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.

You ought to pray for strength to endure every circumstance.

When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it...

So now what?” I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep.“I think this is just part of it, ” she says. “Civilisations fall. People keep going.

Don't cater to stupidity.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.