I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

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 tragedy of life is when you do not know what to do with time

I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.