For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

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.

Truth, like diamond, has many facets.

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

Only dreams give birth to change.

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.