I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

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.

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.

If you can abuse your power you have too much.

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?