Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

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.

I wish that I was 'tech savvy', but unfortunately for me and my family, I'm 'tech illiterate'.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Maybe if we just lay beneath the stars long enough, all our worries will dissipate into the cosmos. And we can lay there motionless, yet sailing across the stars.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.