I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

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.

Do not focus on the broken pieces, focus on the whole picture

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.