Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

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.

The person who doesn't value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.

I'm my own person. I'm not a yes person. So I tell it as it is. I tell my opinions and I was always like that. So I think he likes that.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.