Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

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.

Don't be preoccupied with something that drags your mind downhill. Be someone who could be destined to shine and can have the ability reach ultimate goals for the future."

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

Earth is the largest being on this planet.

All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.