Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

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.

...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.