For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

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.

These are NOT times for dramatization and talking, but meditation and praying.

The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

My beautiful swan. My savior and my undoing.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.