Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

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.

It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.