He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

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.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.