Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

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.

Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn’t work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Mankind has created many religions

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.