First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

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.

Trust your soul.It alone knows what you are here to do in this lifetime and what will actually make you happy.

All change begins with someone having a thought.

I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination.

Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.