Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.