Cracks in our souls help us bear the overwhelming imperfections of the world. They're not our flaws. Kindness knows this.

If words are not music, they have failed your song.

People who don't respect the time you spent with them, don't know they have lost the gift of good memories.

To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.

We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.