I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

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.

Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don’t lower your own standards of behavior.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now saying, "Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!"

Dance music was on its arse before we came along.

Education liberates a woman.

Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.