I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

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.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

Begin and you're halfway there.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.