Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

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 is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.